Cut the Carb to Kick that Flab with our top Indian low carb recipes for weight loss !! Yes , and we will help you do it in an extremely tasty way. Here are some top Indian low carb recipes for weight loss that will help you great deal in your fitness journey. Everyone is well aware of what is good for health and what is not? What to eat and what not? If you want to lose weight just go a bit rigid on carbohydrates. A low carb diet results in improved health markers, controls blood sugar and reduces cholesterol along with weight loss.
How do these Indian low carb recipes for weight loss help?
When you avoid simple sugar and starches, the blood sugar stabilizes dropping the levels of the fat-storing hormone insulin. This stimulates fat burning and makes you feel more satiated, reducing food intake and hunger.
Check out our other articles to know more about how low carb diet helps in weight loss.
What foods to include in Low carb diet?
Indian diets are cereal based. It is difficult to dodge from our staple food. Thus, we will look into Indian recipes that are rich in healthy carbohydrates and at the same time low in quantity. We can include variety of fruits, vegetables, pulses, dals and nuts to make it healthier and less dense in carbs.
Indian Low Carb Recipes for weight loss
Here are 10 amazingly tasty, healthy and Indian low carb recipes for weight loss. All the recipes are low calorie and complex healthy carbs which account for less than 20 gms at a time.
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Humus with Maize Tortillas
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| Ingredients | Amount (gms) | Energy
(kcals) |
CHO
(gms) |
Proteins
(gms) |
Fats
(gms) |
| Hummus | |||||
| Chickpea | 15 | 50 | 8.5 | 3.5 | 0.3 |
| Garlic | 1 -2 cloves | – | – | – | – |
| Salt to taste | |||||
| Oil | 1 tspn | 45 | – | – | 5 |
| Maize Tortillas | |||||
| Maize flour | 15 | 50 | 10 | 1.5 | 0.1 |
| Salt to taste | |||||
| Butter | 1 tspn | 35 | – | – | 7 |
| Chilli flakes | ½ tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 180 | 18.5 | 5 | 12.4 |
Method:
- Soak chickpea for at least 8 hours and pressure cook it.
- Grind chickpea into thick paste.
- Heat oil, sauté chopped garlic and add chickpea paste and salt. Mix it for 2 – 3 minutes. Hummus is ready.
- Make maize flour dough adding salt, chilli flakes and add oil to it.
- Roll maize flour into sheet and bake it in oven for 10 -12 minutes at 180 o C or roast it on tava till it becomes crisp.
- Cut the tortillas into equal pieces and serve with hummus.
Read – Types of Millets of weight loss and fitness.
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Oats idli with coriander chutney
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| Ingredients | Amount (gms) | Energy
(kcals) |
CHO
(gms) |
Proteins
(gms) |
Fats
(gms) |
| Oats | 30 | 100 | 20 | 3.5 | 0.2 |
| Spinach | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Coriander leaves | 100 | – | – | – | – |
| Curd | 50 | 33 | 1.2 | 2 | 1.6 |
| Salt to taste | |||||
| Oil for greasing | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 133 | 21.2 | 5.5 | 1.8 |
Method:
- Grind oats and mix it with curd, salt and chopped spinach until you get idli like consistency. Rest it for half an hour.
- Grease the idli plate and pour the batter on the plate.
- Steam the idlis for 15 minutes and serve it with coriander chutney.
Read – Top 10 healthy Indian breakfast recipes .
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Channa Masala
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| Ingredients | Amount (gms) | Energy
(kcals) |
CHO
(gms) |
Proteins
(gms) |
Fats
(gms) |
| Horse gram | 30 | 100 | 17 | 7 | 0.5 |
| Tomatoes | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Onion | 25 | 6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | – |
| Coriander | 1 tbspn | – | – | – | – |
| Salt to taste | – | – | – | – | – |
| Lemon juice | 1 tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Red chilli powder | 1 pinch | – | – | – | – |
| Butter | 1 tspn | 33 | – | – | 4 |
| Total | 139 | 18.3 | 7.2 | 4.5 |
Method:
- Soak horse gram for at least 8 – 10 hours and pressure cook it.
- Heat the butter, sauté tomatoes and onions till golden and add boiled horse gram in it. Add a dash of lemon and salt to taste.
- Garnish it with chopped coriander and serve.
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Moong dal Chilla
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| Ingredients | Amount (gms) | Energy
(kcals) |
CHO
(gms) |
Proteins
(gms) |
Fats
(gms) |
| Moongdal | 30 | 100 | 17 | 7 | 0.5 |
| Capsicum | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Cashewnuts | 5 (2 nos.) | 33 | 1.3 | 1 | 2.6 |
| Green chilli | 1 no. | – | – | – | – |
| Salt to taste | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 133 | 18.3 | 8 | 3.1 |
Read – Baked moong dal halwa
Method:
- Soak moongdal (green or yellow, any variety) for 2 hours and grind it with chillies and salt.
- Mix chopped cashewnuts and capsicum.
- Make chillas on non-stick pan without oil or just brush the pan with few drops of oil and roast the chillas.
- Serve with coriander chutney.
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Exotic veggie salad
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| Ingredients | Amount (gms) | Energy
(kcals) |
CHO
(gms) |
Proteins
(gms) |
Fats
(gms) |
| Zucchini | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Cherry Tomatoes | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Onions | 25 | 6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | – |
| Capsicum | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Lettuce | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Carrots | 25 | 6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | – |
| Pomegranate | 25 | 25 | 5 | ||
| Salt to taste | – | – | – | – | – |
| Olive oil | 5 | 45 | – | – | 5 |
| Curd | 100 | 67 | 2.6 | 3.6 | 4 |
| Flaxseeds | 5 | 33 | 1.3 | 1 | 2.6 |
| Coriander | 1 tbspn | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 182 | 11.5 | 5 | 11.6 |
Method:
- Chops all the vegetables into cubes.
- Mix beaten curd, salt, flaxseed and pomegranate to the veggies.
- Garnish with coriander and serve.
Read – Top sources of antioxidants in your vegetables.
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Veggie Egg omelette
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| Ingredients | Amount (gms) | Energy
(kcals) |
CHO
(gms) |
Proteins
(gms) |
Fats
(gms) |
| Eggs | 1 | 85 | – | 6.5 | 6.5 |
| Cherry tomatoes | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Onions | 25 | 6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | – |
| Capsicum | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Salt to taste | – | – | – | – | – |
| Oil | 5 | 45 | – | – | 5 |
| Coriander | 1 tbspn | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 136 | 1.3 | 6.7 | 11.5 |
Method:
- Beat the eggs well.
- Heat the oil in pan, pour the mixture
- sprinkle the chopped vegetables, salt and coriander. Roast the omelette till golden brown.
- Serve the omelette with black coffee.
Read – Asparagus omlette recipe
- Paneer patty
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| Ingredients | Amount (gms) | Energy
(kcals) |
CHO
(gms) |
Proteins
(gms) |
Fats
(gms) |
| Paneer | 40 | 100 | – | 7 | 8 |
| Carrot | 25 | 12 | 2.5 | – | – |
| Capsicum | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Oil | 5 | 45 | – | – | 5 |
| Salt to taste | |||||
| Dry mango powder | ½ tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Garam masala | ½ tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Lemon juice | ½ tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Green chilli | 1 no. | – | – | – | – |
| Tomato | 50 | – | – | – | – |
| Vinegar | ½ tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Garlic | 2 cloves | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 157 | 2.5 | 7 | 13 |
Method:
- Mash paneer and add chopped vegetables. Add salt, dry mango powder, garam masala, lemon juice and chopped green chillies to the mix.
- Roll into balls and flatten into shape of patty. Shallow fry on non-stick pan using very less oil.
- For tomato chutney, cook tomatoes and garlic till all the water burns. Add vinegar, salt and green chillies for taste.
Read – Indian Paleo diet
– Indian vegetarian paleo diet
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Sprout salad
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| Ingredients | Amount (gms) | Energy
(kcals) |
CHO
(gms) |
Proteins
(gms) |
Fats
(gms) |
| Moong sprouts | 15 | 50 | 8.5 | 3.5 | 0.3 |
| Tomatoes | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Onions | 25 | 6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | – |
| Capsicum (yellow) | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Salt to taste | – | – | – | – | – |
| Vinegar | ½ tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Coriander | 1 tbspn | – | – | – | – |
| Lemon juice | ½ tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 56 | 9.8 | 3.7 | 0.3 |
This is my favourite Indian low carb recipes for weight loss. Many times I personally have this for breakfast.
Method:
- Mix boiled sprouts, chopped vegetables, salt, lemon juice and vinegar.
- Sprinkle chopped coriander and serve the nutritious salad.
Read – Types of sprouts and their benefits
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Nutri- veg Roll
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| Ingredients | Amount (gms) | Energy
(kcals) |
CHO
(gms) |
Proteins
(gms) |
Fats
(gms) |
| Ragi flour | 15 | 50 | 10 | 1.7 | 0.3 |
| Paneer | 20 | 50 | – | 3.5 | 4 |
| Cabbage | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Carrot + onion | 50 | 25 | 5 | – | – |
| Capsicum | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Butter | 5 | 33 | – | – | 4 |
| Salt to taste | |||||
| Garam masala | ½ tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Chilli powder | ½ tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Salt to taste | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 158 | 15 | 5.2 | 8.3 |
Method:
- Grate paneer and other vegetables. Sauté the vegetables and paneer in a pan without oil. Add salt, chilli powder, garam masala and mix the stuffing.
- Make soft dough out of ragi flour. Roll into a chapatti and roast it on both the sides like chapatti.
- Apple green coriander chutney on one side of chapatti. Sprinkle some chaat masala and put the stuffing on roti. Roll the chapatti, apply butter on outer side and roast on pan.
- Cut into half and serve the hot nutriveg roll.
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Chilli chicken
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| Ingredients | Amount (gms) | Energy
(kcals) |
CHO
(gms) |
Proteins
(gms) |
Fats
(gms) |
| Chicken | 50 | 50 | – | 13 | – |
| Capsicum | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Tomatoes | 25 | – | – | – | – |
| Onion | 25 | 6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | – |
| Garlic | 2 cloves | – | – | – | – |
| Ginger | ¼ inch pc | – | – | – | – |
| Green chilli | 1 nos. | – | – | – | – |
| Oil | 5 | 45 | – | – | 5 |
| Soya sauce | 1 tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Vinegar | ½ tspn | – | – | – | – |
| Salt to taste | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total |
Method:
- Grill the chicken pieces and chop the vegetables into cubes.
- Sauté the ginger, garlic and chilli paste and add chopped vegetables. Sauté till vegetables become little soft.
- Add grilled chicken, salt, soya sauce and vinegar. Add little water so the sauces quote the chicken and vegetables.
- Garnish with chopped spring onion greens and serve hot.
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End note:
A perfect blend of high protein, moderate fat and low carbohydrates is not so hard to achieve in Indian diets. Smart modifications in recipes will help you have desired results with very little or negligible deviation from Indian roots. Hope these Indian low carb recipes for weight loss help you in achieving your target weight. All the best .
Hi,
How’s maize and ragi low carb?
Hi Shathni ,
They are healthy carbs . complex carbs and rich in fiber too. the resistant starch in maize works as a fiber and hence most of the carb is excreated from the body without being absorbed.
Can i use oats and besan flour for roti than whole wheat flour.. Which is good,??
Hi Fara,
yes you can use these flours for roti . both oats and whole wheat flour are equally good and nutritious . oats flour will have slightly higher fiber content , but they are almost similar in nitrition.
Which oil is best for cooking during weight loss.
You can use a combination of Mufa and Pufa type of oil . This is true not only in case of weight loss , but for a healthy heart as well.
Mufa oils include – groundnut oil , mustard oil , olive oil
Pufa oil includes – all vegetable oils like rice bran oil , sunflower oil , safflower oil , cotton seed oil , etc .
Ideally you should mix 1 type of mufa with 1 type of pufa oil . if you dont like the blended taste , you can keep these 2 oils seperately , and use them alternately for your vegetable preps .
saturated fats like (SFA) – butter , ghee , coconut oil can be taken 1 – 2 tsp in a day . the quantity depends on your total oil consumption.
The ratio OF MUFA :PUFA :SFA in your daily routine should be 1:1:1
Can i hav oly 1 full sweet corn for dinner and how many calories it contains
Hi Deva ,
Yes you can have 1 sweetcorn for dinner . it contains around 100 – 105 calories.